i got norton antivirus 2003, used the free live updates for a year and now i need to subscribe again.
i was wondering is there a way to get free unlimited live updates?
also with the newest version of McAffe do u need to pay for the updates after a certain period of time?

zapjb

02-17-2003, 07:51 AM

McAffe sucks. And for Norton 3 choices not to pay. First you could COMPLETELY uninstall NAV. Then reinstall it. If you COMPLETELY uninstalled NAV, AFAIK you&#39;d get another year subscription (but you might have to reinstall all the past year updates). That was my experience a couple years ago. Another option would be go to andr.net (cough, cough) & educate yourself. Or get your hands on NAV 2003 (Where are we? Hint, hint.). :)

imported_uncle_cracker

02-17-2003, 08:30 AM

Originally posted by zapjb@17 February 2003 - 08:51
McAffe sucks. And for Norton 3 choices not to pay. First you could COMPLETELY uninstall NAV. Then reinstall it. If you COMPLETELY uninstalled NAV, AFAIK you&#39;d get another year subscription (but you might have to reinstall all the past year updates). That was my experience a couple years ago. Another option would be go to andr.net (cough, cough) & educate yourself. Or get your hands on NAV 2003 (Where are we? Hint, hint.). :)
yes i made the same with nav. B)

reinstalling(clean) - installing - then you will have another year subscription service.

by the way: i have done this with a new version from nav, but i am sure that it will work with the same.

cu

Yusuke

02-17-2003, 09:03 AM

If uninstalling NAV doesn&#39;t get it so when you reinstall you get another year of updates, get this (http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/949e46314f0916a0852565d00073bbfd/33497f6e8a319ece88256ace0076cc02/&#036;FILE/Rnav2003.exe) program from symantec (called RNAV2003.exe, it gets rid of all NAV registry entries that may get leftover after an uninstall) and run it after you uninstall NAV...
I had to use that program once casue i had a prob with my nav (kept gettin an error message and couldn&#39;t run it) and uninstalling didn&#39;t fix it but once i used that program, reintalling worked fine and it also changed my year of updates to the day i reinstalled...

jetje

02-17-2003, 09:55 AM

Yusuke is right, the uninstall leave probably some registry entries which makes it very hard to install it again. So use the tools Yusuke adviced B)